for the united states of america the best is yet to come i possibly move to barack obama promises to resurrect his four year old message of hope after winning his second term as president of the united states. and the world reacts to obama's victory from a cold response in israel and the arab world too cautious optimism in the halls of the. greece is about to vote on new austerity measures with thousands of angry workers gathered at the parliament as part of nationwide protests against. time.

thanks so much for joining us here today. live in moscow. fulfill his promise of change in a victory speech to jubilant supporters of course after securing a second as president president excuse me of the united states. and what was predicted to be a close finish if not a tie turned into an electoral college landslide as obama swept a victory in almost every battleground state his republican challenger mitt romney who wasn't far behind in a role votes did ultimately concede defeat. now reports on what was the most expensive in all of us history. well mitt romney has accepted his loss president obama is reelected and got his supporters very excited of course but this year one

could sense that overwhelming euphoria that was there four years ago where president obama was running for his first term was not quite there anymore is that his supporters are not excited they are we saw that at the democratic rally in the president's home city of chicago but with the rest of the country feels more like relief rather than you for you there has been quite a bit of disappointment over the last four years the economy is not recovering as fast as people would want it to the obama campaign is argument is that he inherited such a disaster in terms of the economy that the process couldn't possibly go faster but again a lot of it has to do with very high expectations for the president when he took office just a few months ago the president's job approval rating was barely above forty percent is that for now of course the argument is that a lot of people voted for the president because they were simply scared of mitt romney's aggressive rhetoric and they saw him as someone who's out of touch with

the middle class the obama campaign has been successfully making that argument as well as the argument that mitt romney would be like the second coming of george w. bush with more wars on america's plate and possibly another disastrous economic meltdown more on the celebration and the expectations of the obama voters here's my report. and the winner is i want to think they're going to murder participated in this is why. you made your voice heard. and you made a difference i mean romney has accepted his loss to destroy president obama to congratulate him on his victory full on excitement in the president's hometown of chicago to a. president obama's voters chanting four more years by the what do they expect in the next four years and are they so happy with the past four of his presidency

congress hasn't been very call the past two years but i think he needs these four more years to continue i'm very happy with what he's tried to achieve i really need to have the help of the health care that he's going to offer and like i said we need more time than the last four years the main pledge of president obama's campaign has been to bring back the shrinking middle class and made the economy slow recovery and gigantic deficit at a time when the gap between the rich and the poor is as high as ever in america i want to give middle class families and folks who are striving to get in the middle class some relief because they have been hit hard the president has blamed congress for his inability to implement a more robust plan to help out the middle class president obama's claim that he's being handcuffed by republican lawmakers in his plan to dramatically cut taxes for middle income americans does not hold the vast majority of americans and our entire economy hostage while we debate the merits of another tax cut for the wealthy and

skeptics argue there is no reason to believe congress will give the president an easier ride in his second term however president obama had no problem with congress when he signed into law the controversial legislation which allows for the detention of american citizens for indefinite periods of time without charge and due process is a new trend on the trail of our civil liberties that the president has assumed dictatorial rights to put us in prison at his leisure without charge or without trial and congress did not stand in the president's way when he was increasing military spending year after year something he almost bragged about during the debate on foreign policy our military spending has gone up every single year that i've been in office. the actions. the administration overseas in the last four years have indicated that the president described in favor of military interventions but is the clear strategy is to stay away from fighting ground wars

in which to opt for more hit and run style interventions like the one executed in libya asks where syria the administration indicated that they would like to intervene more actively but for now syria just seems too complicated and washington cannot count on a desirable outcome for us to get more in tangled militarily in syria is a serious step and we have to do so making absolutely certain that we know who we are helping that we're not putting arms in the hands of folks who eventually could turn them against us or our allies in the region having spent around a billion dollars in this election campaign barack obama is america's commander in chief again president obama will be sworn into office in january something his supporters are very excited about their hopes and expectations include jobs no more devastating wars and no more financial meltdowns there was a good number of people who voted for barack obama because they were voting against

mitt romney's seeing him as more aggressive especially when it comes to foreign policy and seemingly out of touch with middle class america and a lot of people they don't see a choice at all in this election in washington i'm going to shut down. and i'm richard spencer the founder and coeditor of alternative right dot com he believes the victory exposes one clear problem a rift between the population of the united states. in america demographics are is destiny and i think in some ways what this election represented was a demographic model or a demographic snapshot of what this nation is it's a nation that starkly divided in many ways between the rule white people and the red states and blue states non-whites and believe rule of law for income whites there seems to be a very very stark divide and i don't think any of the issues really matter that much i don't think things like debate performances matter that much and i think

this election was primarily about demographics and in the middle east a bomber's victory isn't exactly evoking much tribulation israel openly backed mitt romney who went suddenly out of his way to support television and while the arab world is not exactly enthusiastic it does view obama as florida but moderate and the lesser of two evils he's middle east correspondent paula slim points. what we have seen from the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is that he has not shied away from making it publicly known that he would have put food a republican inside the white house what we now witnessing and what we have seen in the past is sometimes a very public clashes public spat between the obama administration and israeli leaders and these were often over the iranian nuclear program as well as palestinian peace talks now there are commentaries at the moment circulating here in israel that say that netanyahu now has a very serious problem on his hands and there is no way that he can cover it at

a recent poll put the support amongst israelis towards romney at fifty seven percent twenty one percent supporting obama under the watches of netanyahu and obama the relationship between the united states and israel has deteriorated to an all time low the big question of course is the whole question of what netanyahu now will do these are very rare and he has been quite vocal saying that he is threatening to strike iran but it is quite clear that he cannot carry out such a strike without american support and obama for his side has not given the support most in the arab world has preferred and obama victory back in two thousand and nine in his now famous cairo speech a bomb a pledge that he was going to introduce a new chapter in american muslim relations but since then there has been a lot of disappointment over the way he has dealt with issues in the arab world particularly these are the muslims it was a lot of criticisms leveled against him in his administration over the way they handled the arab spring they were accused of employing double standards and

inconsistency and also accused of meddling in countries such as egypt and libya and then when it comes to the so-called unnoticed revolutions of bahrain for example with pro-democracy demonstrators have been taking to the streets a bomb has kept quiet. israel's government may be disappointed with the outcome of the election but even on election day it was pushing on with its own plans to confirm the construction of more than a thousand homes for settlers on internationally recognized palestinian land and even an immediate and united chorus of condemnation isn't going to stop it that's according to experts as long as the u.s. has its back. it's true the international community opposes israeli policies but it won't do anything to say israel israel knows and it knows it whether obama is elected or romney selected its trump card is the american congress support that israel has from both political parties and it doesn't care anymore it will do this

in the light of day israel has eliminated the two state solution as it's called it's completely imprisoning the palestinians and no one in the world is going to speak up against it so it doesn't matter really if it's opportunistic or not the point is that israel wins. now comparing obama's history and mitt romney's promises on foreign policy london based author and journalist afshin rattansi says it wouldn't have made much difference whoever had won the white house there'd be very little difference between a republican or a democrat as we can see from president obama's policy of covertly funding syrian rebels and do you know about assassinations in tehran on tehran streets of academics we don't know what is obama promising except this kind of vague idea of constructive engagement while all the time supporting i mean if the terrorists we know president obama has been actively courting along with his secretary of state

we. are in the rebellion in syria and of course supporting roles who are two elements in libya so how so many will be hoodwinked into thinking that president obama or president romney would be different when it came to foreign policy i don't know where they get that from. and while the un e.u. often acts in unison with the u.s. when it comes to the outside world on the economy there's a deepening rift as are his laura smith reports obama's victories getting only a muted response in the old world. europe is very unwilling to commit any more troops to anymore battles abroad the problems in the middle east i think of the us the us is having reflect hugely in europe and in fact in a poll published in desh beagle newspaper in germany we have that a bonus foreign policy rating in europe has drop since his election in two thousand and nine from eighty three percent to seventy one percent say people here are

nearly worried about that and of course i think the major and most pressing issue is the economy the u.s. economy and how it recovers has a huge knock on effect in. the u.s. appears to be in a much slower recovery than was hoped for many of worried or isn't doing as much as he could be doing been little fall in unemployment and little increase in the size of the private sector and in fact this yeah the european countries and here in union and the u.s. entered into a sort of war of words france and germany in particular felt that obama was much too involved much too medals in what they were doing with their economies germany told the u.s. to mind his own budget mind his own deficit before it looked to other countries and france directly said that the u.s. was responsible for the economic crisis and it had nothing to say about how they were going to get out of it so we had reactions from david cameron he tweeted his congratulations as has the e.u.

commission to say it's all smiles on the surface and i think there are some issues to be discussed underneath. your smith reporting right up next on arts he will be looking at the quinlan's take on obama's victory and how it may bode for the told good times between the two powers much more after a quick. of the six america votes for its next president. who will take the wheel as the us drives into the future. get the news the mainstream missives with up close election coverage the us election up close. and r.t. dot com. flying north with me in this old soviet work or so the helicopter is dr ron amir brodsky and his team from the region's medical aviation service we head across ever more barren tundra higher and higher into russia's arctic far north until

eventually we see our landing spot with the arrival of this tiny village after crossing hundreds of kilometers of snowy wilderness as a boy here suffering from favre and the doctors are going to see what they can do. inside a small building not one but two babies and their parents are waiting for us the doctors inspect them but can't make a diagnosis and decide to bring them to a regional hospital for better care spread lana doesn't like taking her baby away from home but she's been before and agrees to go that's the usual practice with. the keep mothers with their newborns in hospital for a month. on the way back another stop to check on the health of some native minuets reindeer herders out in the tundra it can take many hours to reach the nearest village so our medical problems simply fixed here in the tent that i should get

used to be but now we can go to civilized places so we call for emergency help. back at hospital other patients helped by the air ambulance are being treated the service costs forty million dollars a year to run and there's been controversy with some claiming that locals exaggerate or make up health problems and use the helicopters as a free taxi service accusations vladimir firmly dismisses your brother is not true usually the calls are perfectly justified sometimes we reproach locals for waiting too long before calling us he's been working as a doctor now for forty three years but vladimir is confident the diva after he retires his helicopter doctors will remain a lifeline to the peoples of the russian far north.

from moscow this is our research a welcome to the program athens is again the scene of protests by greek sangria new austerity measures there certainly making their presence felt ahead of a vote on a fresh set of cuts demanded by international lenders and the strikes and demonstrations against the bill have brought the nation to a standstill and reporting from the greek capital artie's pretty rough. midway through the forty eight hour general strike here in greece the greek people have been making their anger towards the next round of austerity measures clear they were out in their thousands here on syntagma square on tuesday and they're going to be back later on wednesday they are upset it what they say are unfair measure is this going to be imposed upon them should prime minister some modest this latest round he says the last round of austerity measures he voted for and be okayed in the parliament building just behind me on whedon's state and right here where i'm

standing on syntagma square is where thousands of demonstrators are expected to gather in order to show their displeasure for what is expected to be thirteen point five billion euros worth of cuts and savings forced upon them now the reason that thirteen point five billion will be voted for is because it's being demanded off by greece's three main creditors and the reason that they're demanding of it is because the creditors the troika as they're called have said that if greece doesn't cut must've then they don't get the next round of bailout money and the question remains that has to be asked if this is voted for will there be enough political support in greece in order to enact these cuts. and the prime minister. promised the greek people that this will be the final round of belt tightening. at the university of. plenty more pain just around the bat. every

a sturdy package in the past two and a half years was supposed to be the last one so now it's going to be the last ever achatz we're going to see more of it and we're just been happening parliament is something very close to a parliamentary could get out you know very rapid way it was just one day today some discussion we're going to pass i should say though that does not only include budget cuts all changes in the pension system and the wage system or a large segments of the public sector it would also affect aspects oh let's say some so this is it's not you know where we want it we're very far from you know democratic procedure this is a set of measures that have been actually dictated by the troika and it's just going to be passed repugnant without any absolutes ghassan. could have you with us here on r.t. today we continue with our u.s.

election coverage. now obama's election triumph has been welcomed here in russia but the question remains whether his second term can breathe new life into the historically sensitive relations between both nations got a pretty good office more on the challenges ahead. many do view mr obama as the engine behind the reset of relations with moscow and one of the biggest achievements of that is definitely the new nuclear arms reduction treaty but at the same time some of the biggest stumbling points in relations are still there including washington's plans for the defense system in europe despite moscow's concerns that it could be a threat to russia's national security we know that obama promised to be a bit more flexible on that will really have to see how it works out and also the two are probably the most fierce paul ince at the u.n. security council when it comes to the conflict in syria but certainly there are

many things that you could work together on which could really tilt this relationship in either direction including things like how russia and the united states will deal with the syria or the iranian nuclear program let's go over the stats one more time here and see the results in the u.s. photo here's a where the figures stand at the moment i was predicted to be a toss up but barack obama's blue ended up flying over almost all the swing states and vital electoral votes thanks to those close wins he was out of reach by the fifth of nine battleground states winning three hundred to romney's two hundred electoral votes the popular vote was a close race for the president and nevertheless had a lead over to. the biggest electoral intrigue of this year draws to a close or we'll be bringing you the final few results more analysis and continued international reaction right here on alt. of the six america votes

for its next president. take the wheel drives into the field you. get the news the mainstream misses with up close election. up close. dot com look at the other world news in a sec you're an oxy including the. gunman went on the rampage in moscow early wednesday morning shooting dead five people and severely wounding two he carried out his killing spree at a pharmaceutical depôt where he was working as a lawyer he's been arrested and is being questioned apparently the suspect had been drinking heavily for several days after his girlfriend left he had published a manifesto saying that he hated. the police car the police just to journalists. all right to syria and turkey now to kick off. turkey and its allies including the

us report. patriot missiles along the border with syria reports suggest that nato is preparing to take responsibility for the deployment of the missiles and the plans however were put on hold due to the election period in america the syrian crisis for the meantime shows no sign of a let up of the string of deadly terror attacks rocking damascus earlier this week . bahrain has revoked the citizenship of thirty one activists claiming they're putting the kingdom security in jeopardy i want to be repeatedly accused by the opposition of ordering a police political crackdown against the protest movement in october all of public gatherings. failed to prevent hundreds of trouble from demonstrators from staging. twenty three people have been rescued after an overcrowded boat capsized off the coast of bangladesh around fifty others are still missing and the vessel was

carrying illegal immigrants from and was heading to malaysia hundreds of thousands of refugees have fled in the past decades to escape ethnic violence. is preparing for a crucial once in a decade. vice president is expected to be named the next communist party head replacing president hu jintao and this is widely seen as a signal that will become the country's next leader when the transition takes place in march we will bring you special coverage of the communist gathering. the ruling party gathers to select the next generation. thursday november eighth. coming up after a very quick break here our special report that a senseless death because there are those.

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